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Polyhedron

Polˊy-he′dron

,

Noun.

;

pl. E.

Polyhedrons

.

(#)

, L.

Polyhedra

(#)

.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] with many seats or sides;

πολύσ

many + [GREEK] a seat or side: cf. F.

polyèdre

.]

1.

(Geom.)

A body or solid contained by many sides or planes.

2.

(Opt.)

A polyscope, or multiplying glass.

Definition 2024

polyhedron

polyhedron

English

Alternative forms

polyedron

Noun

polyhedron ‎(plural polyhedra or polyhedrons)

(geometry) A solid figure with many flat faces and straight edges.
(optics) A polyscope, or multiplying glass.

Translations

geometry: solid figure

Bulgarian: полиедър (bg) m ‎(poliedǎr), многостен (bg) m ‎(mnogosten)
Catalan: poliedre m, políedre m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 多面體 (zh), 多面体 (zh) ‎(duōmiàntǐ)
Crimean Tatar: çoqhanelik
Czech: mnohostěn m
Danish: polyeder n
Esperanto: pluredro
Finnish: monitahokas (fi), polyedri (fi)
French: polyèdre (fr) m
German: Polyeder (de) n, Vielflach (de) n, Vielflächner (de) m
Greek: πολύεδρον n ‎(polýedron)
Hungarian: poliéder (hu)
Ido: poliedro (io)

Italian: poliedro (it)
Japanese: 多面体 ‎(ためんたい, tamentai)
Latvian: daudzstūris (lv)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: polyeder n

Nynorsk: polyeder n
Polish: wielościan (pl) m
Portuguese: poliedro (pt) m
Romanian: poliedru (ro) n, poliedre n pl
Russian: многогра́нник (ru) m ‎(mnogogránnik), полиэ́др (ru) m ‎(poliédr)
Slovak: mnohosten m
Spanish: poliedro (es)
Swedish: polyeder (sv) c
Tagalog: damdayag

polyscope — see polyscope

Hypernyms

abstract polyhedron
polytope

Hyponyms

Hyponyms

See also Wikisaurus:polyhedron

See also

apeirohedron
Schläfli symbol
spherical polyhedron
subpolyhedron
tessellation